Title: Memorial services set for Doris McCullough
Date: November 3, 2000
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: news@cm.disciples.org
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INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- Memorial services for the Rev. Doris V. McCullough, 74, will be Nov. 11 at First Christian Church, Concord. Calif. She died Oct. 28 in Concord, Calif.
A longtime servant of the church, McCullough was first an associate regional minister and later, regional minister/vice president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Northern California/Nevada from 1971-1990. She retired in 1991, after 20 years in regional ministry. She also served as coordinator of the 1994 International Christian Women's Fellowship Quadrennial Assembly.
The Greensburg, Kan., native was born Oct. 30, 1925. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She studied at the New School of Religion, Pontiac, Mich., the School of Theology at Claremont, Calif., and the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. McCullough was ordained into the Christian ministry in 1978.
Her areas of interest and expertise included Christian education, women's issues, global outreach and ecumenism. She was a speaker, facilitator or workshop leader at numerous area and regional events and was active in global mission activities in the Pacific Southwest Region. She participated in a global mission venture to Japan, and traveled to the former U.S.S.R., Vietnam and Cambodia and Fiji.
In 1987, McCullough received the Kilgore Award from the School of Theology at Claremont. She also wrote a book, Linkings, published by Christian Board of Publication in 1988. In the spring of 2000 she received the Hall of Fame Award from the Northern California-Nevada region for outstanding leadership to the whole church.
McCullough is survived by two sons, Patrick N. McCullough, Hollister, Calif., and Daniel R. McCullough, Kaysville, Utah, and their families, which include eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Two siblings also survive, Dale Pew, Delen, N.M., and Phyllis McKey, Pueblo, Colo.
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